On 10Oct2006 16:28, Basho Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hey.  Is there a way to format the MBR inside Linux?  The LILO that
| was installed with a distro I tried is not getting written over by
| GRUB from another distro that I'm trying out.  Thanks for any help.

It should be being overwritten.
Make sure you're telling grub-install to install on the device itself
(eg /dev/hda) instead of the first partition (eg /dev/hda1).
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